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A review by czarinameansqueen
Revenge by Dani Hoots
1.0
I really wanted to like this book. I really did. I picked it up mainly because the cover was gorgeous, but sadly I was disappointed.
My main problem with this book was it was trying to do too much. The story is relatively small. It could have probably done well as a smaller arc in a larger book and told in fewer pages. Something that added to this problem was there were just too many narrators in the story, which felt like it contributes to the lack of character development in the main cast of characters. The story might have been a lot stronger if it had focused on one, maybe, two narrators and built more information to their POVs. My last main issue with this book was the amount of describing feelings over telling them. Every character described not only their own actions before they did them, but would often also describe what the other main characters probably felt before they did an action. This led to a lot of repetition of descriptions in different characters POVs which destroyed the flow of the scenes.
I really wanted to be drawn into the world but struggled to do to the lack of worldbuilding. The characters move throughout a few placed in the book yet it feels like it's all taking place in the same city. Each place didn't feel unique enough, other than maybe a character stating that "this place was different because of Blank", each place the characters encountered felt the same and led to the world feeling a lot less fleshed out as it could have been.
The part of the book that probably drove me the most crazy was there was so much unnecessary fluff in a lot of the scenes. So many extra lines of dialogue and description that kept making me ask myself why do I need to know this? Many of the chapters would have been so much more exciting if it had cut down on so many of the unnecessary details.
My main problem with this book was it was trying to do too much. The story is relatively small. It could have probably done well as a smaller arc in a larger book and told in fewer pages. Something that added to this problem was there were just too many narrators in the story, which felt like it contributes to the lack of character development in the main cast of characters. The story might have been a lot stronger if it had focused on one, maybe, two narrators and built more information to their POVs. My last main issue with this book was the amount of describing feelings over telling them. Every character described not only their own actions before they did them, but would often also describe what the other main characters probably felt before they did an action. This led to a lot of repetition of descriptions in different characters POVs which destroyed the flow of the scenes.
I really wanted to be drawn into the world but struggled to do to the lack of worldbuilding. The characters move throughout a few placed in the book yet it feels like it's all taking place in the same city. Each place didn't feel unique enough, other than maybe a character stating that "this place was different because of Blank", each place the characters encountered felt the same and led to the world feeling a lot less fleshed out as it could have been.
The part of the book that probably drove me the most crazy was there was so much unnecessary fluff in a lot of the scenes. So many extra lines of dialogue and description that kept making me ask myself why do I need to know this? Many of the chapters would have been so much more exciting if it had cut down on so many of the unnecessary details.